Bihar election 2025: Friendly Fight Within the Grand Alliance on Eight Seats
The Grand Alliance in bihar is showing signs of internal friction as candidates from its constituent parties contest against each other in eight assembly constituencies despite claims of unity.
The nomination process for the first phase of the bihar assembly elections (121 seats) has concluded.
So far, only the national democratic alliance (NDA) has announced its seat-sharing formula, while the Grand Alliance’s seat-sharing among RJD, Congress, Left parties, and VIP remains unsettled.
Candidates filed nominations as follows:
RJD: 72 seats
Congress: 26 seats
Left parties: 21 seats
Vikassheel Insaan party (VIP): 6 seats
There are eight seats where Grand Alliance parties have fielded candidates against each other, indicating tensions:
Kahlgaon:
RJD’s Rajneesh Yadav vs Congress’s praveen Kushwaha
Tarapur:
RJD’s Arun Shah vs VIP’s Sakaldev Singh
Bachhwara:
Congress’s Prakash Das vs CPI’s Awadhesh Kumar Rai
Biharsharif:
Rosera:
Congress’s BK ravi vs CPI’s Laxman Paswan
Rajpakar:
Congress’s Pratima Kumari vs CPI’s Mohit Paswan
Vaishali:
RJD’s ajay Kushwaha vs Congress’s E. sanjeev Singh
Lalganj (most discussed):
RJD’s Shivani Shukla (daughter of ex-MLA munna Shukla) vs Congress’s Aditya Kumar Raja
Reactions from leaders:
Dipankar Bhattacharya (CPI(ML)): The delay in seat sharing is due to alliance expansion, not breakdown.
Akhilesh Singh (Congress MP): No problems exist; internal work is ongoing. mukesh Sahni’s issues are resolved, with seat reductions to honor him. Tejashwi Yadav remains the cm face.
Sudhakar Singh (RJD MP): The alliance is united. Opposition rumors of disputes and friendly fights are false. Conflicting nominations will be withdrawn.
Despite friendly fights, the Grand Alliance maintains that all is well and final seat-sharing will soon be resolved.
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